When It’s a Different Voice

When I teach writing, I’m often talking about different “voices” depending on the audience. There’s this “scholarly academic voice” that’s part of the academic journal article community; there’s the advocacy voice of opinion writing; there’s the professional voice in application materials; there’s the personal narrative voice. But what kind of voice would you use for a middle-grade novel? It’s harder than I thought. It mostly involves different sentence lengths and wording and less complex grammatical structures. You’re always thinking about audience. What do they know? What do they understand?

If you’re starting a new writing project this summer, consider your audience and your written voice. Let me know how it’s going! Here’s Elita’s voice in This Seat’s Saved.

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